[gentoo-user] Stream Audio to RasPi on LAN

2013-04-29 Thread Randy Westlund
Hey guys, I have a nice set of speakers, but they aren't near my desk in my home office. I used to carry them back and forth when I wanted good music, but that was a pain. I currently have a RasPi running arch connected to the speakers -- I've been cat-ing audio files over ssh to mplayer,

Re: [gentoo-user] Stream Audio to RasPi on LAN

2013-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/04/2013 17:26, Randy Westlund wrote: Hey guys, I have a nice set of speakers, but they aren't near my desk in my home office. I used to carry them back and forth when I wanted good music, but that was a pain. I currently have a RasPi running arch connected to the speakers -- I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Stream Audio to RasPi on LAN

2013-04-29 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 29.04.2013 17:26, schrieb Randy Westlund: Hey guys, I have a nice set of speakers, but they aren't near my desk in my home office. I used to carry them back and forth when I wanted good music, but that was a pain. I currently have a RasPi running arch connected to the speakers --

Re: [gentoo-user] Stream Audio to RasPi on LAN

2013-04-29 Thread Randy Westlund
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 05:31:52PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 29/04/2013 17:26, Randy Westlund wrote: Hey guys, I have a nice set of speakers, but they aren't near my desk in my home office. I used to carry them back and forth when I wanted good music, but that was a pain. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Stream Audio to RasPi on LAN

2013-04-29 Thread Randy Westlund
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 06:18:42PM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 29.04.2013 17:26, schrieb Randy Westlund: Hey guys, I have a nice set of speakers, but they aren't near my desk in my home office. I used to carry them back and forth when I wanted good music, but that was a pain.

Re: [gentoo-user] Stream Audio to RasPi on LAN

2013-04-29 Thread Jason Weisberger
I personally have this setup running on Windows on my home network. XBMC has uPNP built in which allows streaming to or from my home theater setup from either my Android phone or another uPNP machine on my network. It's by far yhe easiest solution I could come up with. Even lets me stream 1080p

Re: [gentoo-user] Stream Audio to RasPi on LAN

2013-04-29 Thread Alecks Gates
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Randy Westlund rwest...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 06:18:42PM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 29.04.2013 17:26, schrieb Randy Westlund: Hey guys, I have a nice set of speakers, but they aren't near my desk in my home office. I used to

Re: [gentoo-user] Stream Audio to RasPi on LAN

2013-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:31:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Run OpenElec on the Pi - it's a minimalist distro running XBMC, must like an appliance. Then you can stream whatever you want to the Pi using just about every known protocol from just about every known device (phones included!) Another

Re: [gentoo-user] Stream Audio to RasPi on LAN

2013-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/04/2013 18:38, Randy Westlund wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 05:31:52PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 29/04/2013 17:26, Randy Westlund wrote: Hey guys, I have a nice set of speakers, but they aren't near my desk in my home office. I used to carry them back and forth when I wanted